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Ah, what a delightful opportunity to delve into the nuances of the English language and its wonderfully intricate idioms! Let's embark on an enlightening exploration of why the phrase "dead in the water" is certainly not the same as simply being "dead." For anyone less familiar with the idiomatic expressions and metaphors of English, this can be a fascinating journey.

To begin with, when we hear the word "dead," one's mind might instinctively leap to its most literal and unfortunate meaning—devoid of life. In biology, this means the cessation of all vital functions: no heartbeat, no brain activity, no breath. The ultimate and irreversible state that all living things, sadly, will eventually meet. It's quite final, isn't it? The end of the line. Kaput. There's no ambiguity here; dead means dead.

However, the wonders of language allow us to use words in metaphorical or idiomatic expressions to convey more complex or nuanced situations or states. And that's where "dead in the water" swims into the scene. This phrase, you see, has nothing to do with the literal cessation of life. Oh, no. It's far more colorful and applicable in a variety of non-lethal scenarios.

Originally, this idiom comes from the nautical world—a domain rich with metaphorical language, given the myriad challenges and adventures faced at sea. Imagine a ship, if you will, its sails billowing as it cuts through the waves. Now, picture it suddenly unable to move; the wind has died down to nothing, the sails slump, and the ship is merely adrift, going nowhere. It is, quite poetically, "dead in the water." The ship isn't literally dead, of course—it's just temporarily incapacitated, unable to proceed along its intended course until the wind decides to grace it with its presence once again.

Transposed into everyday usage beyond the high seas, "dead in the water" is a vivid metaphor for projects, plans, or initiatives that have come to a halt—stymied, unable to progress, much like that becalmed ship. It's used to describe something that has little hope of success or revival in its current state. For instance, if a business venture runs out of funding or a new policy is halted by regulatory issues, they might be described as "dead in the water." Not literally deceased, but stuck, with no forward momentum.

In essence, while "dead" is the cessation of life, "dead in the water" is about cessation of progress or movement—figuratively speaking, of course. The latter suggests a temporary state, a problem potentially fixable, perhaps with effort, change in strategy, or a shift in external conditions, unlike the permanence and finality of being literally dead.

Isn't it simply marvelous how language lets us draw such specific shades of meaning with just a tweak of phraseology? Through this exploration, we can appreciate not only the richness of English idioms but also the joy of explaining something so deceptively simple yet profoundly different. Here we stand—or float, if you will—at the junction of literal and metaphorical, grasping the beauty of expression. And isn't that what language is all about?
The problem we keep having is that you have a highway that goes through a town, and it should be a highway. Its purpose is to connect the larger cities on either end of the highway at high speed. And it's perfectly simple to do that, you just make it a limited access road and then the town has other roads with lower speeds for local people.

But the local residents don't want that, because they want the traffic from the road to come into the little town and patronize local businesses. So they put the businesses along the main road and put pedestrians where the traffic is, and then complain about the speed limit on the road whose purpose was supposed to be high speed travel.
Complexity signals innovation: an invention that is merely a "workshop improvement" won't get patented. Complexity signals non-obviousness.

Too easy -> easily copied -> and no long-term competitive advantgage. Complexity signals hard.
They manufactured things people wanted, but shouldn't have wanted...
I would guess there are many projects they could target at any given time.
I’m in it for a free t-shirt.
It's not about treating students differently. Rather it's about where you spend your limited resources for outreach.

For example, during my PhD I did outreach in both elementary and middle schools where teachers said there were skills gaps they needed help with. The demographics in some of those schools happened to be such that 80-90% of the students were black and brown.
It will not emit warnings saying it did that. The static analysis is not very transparent. (If you can get the right incantation of flags working to do so and it works, let me know! The last time I did that it was quite bugged.)

Writing an equivalent program is a bit weird because: 1) Nim does not distinguish between owned and borrowed types in the parameters (except wrt. lent which is bugged and only for optimizations), 2) Nim copies all structures smaller than $THRESHOLD regardless (the threshold is only slightly larger than a pointer but definitely includes all integer types - it's somewhere in the manual) and 3) similarly, not having a way to explicitly return borrows cuts out much of the complexity of lifetimes regardless, since it'll just fall back on reference counting. The TL;DR here though is no, unless I'm mistaken, Nim will fall back on reference counting here (were points 1 and 2 changed).

For clarity as to Nim's memory model: it can be thought of as ownership-optimized reference counting. It's basically the same model as Koka (a research language from Microsoft). If you want to learn more about it, because it is very neat and an exceptionally good tradeoff between performance/ease of use/determinism IMO, I would suggest reading the papers on Perseus as the Nim implementation is not very well-documented. (IIRC the main difference between Koka and Nim's implementation is that Nim frees at the end of scope while Koka frees at the point of last use.)
Many homeowners fancy themselves a jack of all trades and do many sorts of work on their own homes often unwisely. A landlord earns enough to pay for actual tradesmen to work on their homes.

Owning say 1 home and trying to save money by doing all your own work is generally ill advised. You would do better to invest the proceeds in purchasing a second rather than trying to pinch pennies. Done properly there isn't much risk that isn't trivially insurable.
I was surprised because the person suggesting it wanted to get rid of it even though it helped his case. His argument was literally that it would help Black employees advance to get rid of the numbers. I would have expected management to want to hide the numbers.
If that statement is true, I would like to add: All financed by human attention on ads and selling out their users' personal data. Congratulations, humanity.

Now, what could we have achieved in useful areas, with that kind of money?
how is this different from all hotels using booking.com or airbnb and getting suggestion pricing from them?
Eh, I'm pretty sure the author is arguing about "seriousness" in a "professional" sense as opposed to a "large consequence" sense.

I think the proliferation of "large consequence" has to do with lazy writing and if you have a bunch of people "save the world" now they need to one-up it so it becomes "save the star system". So when you have a ton of sequels being produced they need to keep getting larger and larger consequences for the plot line.

However, on the lack of "professionalism" I think the author is spot on. Their initial example is that "Pumpkin Spice" contains no Pumpkin. Saying you're doing X while you'r e not doing X is very unprofessional (unserious).
Sorry, I meant to explicitly include faculty as people who create teams and are responsible for a good work culture. I agree with you, they are HR people in practice.
I agree Windows is getting worse, but there are still lots stable products in old Microsoft, namely the whole productivity suites like Office, OneDrive, SharePoint, Teams, etc.
this is a great resource nonetheless. Even if you did use the name to get attention how does it matter? I still see it as a net positive. Thanks for sharing this
The focus of the effort to make overhead charging viable is on large trucks that already drive mostly, but not completely, predefined routes on highways and in cities, which are often too lengthy to only rely on battery packs.
> We are living in a period of crisis and instability.

What? We are living in a golden age of unprecedented peace and prosperity. By and large, people never had it so good.
Several things I needed were in completely separate documents not linked together.
This has to be a joke, like many of the replies here. If you want a return on your investment of time and energy, you have to take steps to control the insects in your garden. That may involve beneficial insects or less-lethal solutions like soapy water, herbs, or bug traps. But insects will rock your world and kill everything, over and over, until you get them smacked down.

What's next, let termites eat your house? Let mosquitoes and fleas bite you? Go live in a grass hut? For fucks sake...
> What about the fact that X.org itself is ... falling apart

Works for me, and has for literal decades.

> ...without active maintenance...

This update to xorg-server was stabilized on April 14th, and it looks like library changes required me to rebuild and reinstall it like two days ago:

$ eix -I xorg-server
[I] x11-base/xorg-server
Available versions: 21.1.13(0/21.1.13)^t **9999(0/9999)*l^t {debug +elogind minimal selinux suid systemd test +udev unwind xcsecurity xephyr xnest xorg xvfb}
Installed versions: 21.1.13(0/21.1.13)^t(03:15:55 PM 05/03/2024)(elogind udev xorg -debug -minimal -selinux -suid -systemd -test -unwind -xcsecurity -xephyr -xnest -xvfb)
Homepage: https://www.x.org/wiki/ https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/xorg-server
Description: X.Org X servers

> ...and governance the writing is on the wall for X.org.

Weird. Looks like they're running Board of Directors elections. [0]

[0] <https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2024-March/thread.ht...>
if that were true, then rent should be much higher now. Renters can take advantage of past low interest rates from landlords. If rent was calculated based on the cost to acquire the property today, upkeep (refinancing), then rents would be much much higher.
You read that statement incorrectly, the share of dual incomes among married couples doubled.

Married-couple households however have dropped dramatically over time, 76% of households in 1940, 55% of all U.S. households in 1990, and 46% in 2020. “In 1940, married couples with children represented 43 percent of all households; married couples without children represented 33 percent of households”
Potentially hot take, but compression is what I think language is for.

It’s easier to transmit a story than the entire sensory experience of something happening, so it saves us time and attention. Being able to convert complex tasks and ideas into short stories has likely served us well since the brain burns a lot of calories.
In the places where this practice is common, it is also accepted.
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> defining constants for 0-999

That person might just be an old school Java <5 developer.
I remember JSSS, but a more vivid memory for me is LiveConnect: another Netscape-only project that was incredibly powerful and groundbreaking: it allowed Java and JavaScript code to communicate directly, e.g. plain JS could invoke the JDK and instantiate Java objects. In retrospect, also a truly terrible idea, but at the time, it was amazing.
My Volvo EVSE has two tails, one for 110V and one for 240V. It'll operate in either mode depending on the supply voltage you give it.
I didn't find it confusing at all. I think it's totally ok to re-use phrasing made famous by someone else - this is how language evolves after all.
working on a project like this seems like a good way to learn and perfect skills you wouldn't be able to if you were working on a pipeline of issues for an existing package.
That's a big differentiator - it's surprising that there is no STM32 with Wi-Fi.
> At the same time we can mass manufacture endless cheap plastic shit.

You say it like that's a bad thing.
Not to be flippant but the saying "when you're robbing peter to pay paul, you can always count on the support of paul" comes to mind. Maybe you really are a super qualified researcher that is doing great work, but all I see as the result of this DEI stuff is sinecures and make work jobs and generally lower standards across the board. (e.g. the former harvard president, or the current press secretary)

I dont think anyone would have a problem with DEI if it was about identifying unrecognized talent and making sure it got the proper attention. Thats not what it is right now.
Land acknowledgement statements are creeping into the US these days. I could be wrong, but they've been in Canada for a while.

There's been a bit more push back here. There's a lawsuit where a University of Washington compsci professor is suing the school for retaliation because he mocked the policy. He pointed out there is no evidence that the Salish people made use of University of Washington lands, so the whole thing is a farce.
First I think that it is wrong to single out this issue on Open Source projects.

For example, since the first versions of app stores, when you are an app developer you would receive a lot of messages from random shady dudes ready to buy your application if it had a few users.

Also, the xz thing was kind of pretty smart, but it is also a thing in mind of most OSs developers that you can't trust any random contributor and so that you will be very careful of really knowing someone before giving some privilege.

Just look how the debian policies were designed or that things like "pull requests" were invented for Open Source projects where everyone in a project used to be allowed to push whatever in private ones before.
Didn't "Zero to Hero" come from Disney's Hercules movie before Karparthy used it?
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If you can find a neighbourhood that's as dangerous and unsafe as those a hundred years ago, the house would be very cheap compared to GDP per capita.
I’m going to be honest, those examples don’t really make me feel that DEI is serving a valid purpose. If those are the best cases then I will say good riddance. Uniformity of opinion should not be a goal of academia.
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You actually explained the need for DEI.

>Yet if some HR person would interview me, a white-skinned guy, and then my best friend, a black-skinned guy who has African/Japanese ancestry, I'd definitely be placed in the same "bucket" as the white Dutchies around me and my friend with the black Dutchies, despite him and I actually having identical experiences and mindsets and not really having anything in common with the Dutchies.

If they're putting you two in different buckets, how likely is it that it's to do something with one bucket and something else with the other? I imagine that, on average, the white-people-who-have-nothing-to-do-with-each-other bucket is going to fare better than the black-people-who-have-nothing-to-do-with-each-other bucket.

DEI is meant to counteract that. It's concerned with the initial surface-level nonsense because the initial surface-level nonsense, driven by socioeconomic and political structures and implicit bias, is what keeps HR et al. from being able to reach deeper and make conscientious calls vis a vis diversity of thought.
Very low compared to not bollards.
This is done to every immigrant group, but generally most immigrant waves assimilate and are treated more or less equally. Through all those waves Black people were consistently and persistently treated badly, with things like official segregation, anti miscegenation laws, voting restrictions, redlining, and other unofficial policies and extra-judicial public murders.

Not sure what country you’re in but the fact of a permanent visible racial/ethnic underclass that has only recently won the right to vote among other things creates that dynamic.
Didn't know that, but now I have an excuse to go watch a movie :D
In spite of the big texbox at the top asking for the zip codes, it works outside USA. The links are at the bottom. (It looks like the search box is only for USA.)

I looked at the map of Argentina. It would be nice to be able to see all South America, so see how the zones continue in neighbour countries.
I disagree that “other senses of equality” come with “good reason.” In fact, I find it to be an insidious corruption of the meaning of the word to further the agenda of those in power. That’s exactly how evil works. Wolves in sheep’s clothing. “Standing for equality” while owning more wealth than 98% of the population.
The deception and malice that you've shown in this thread is incredible.

> I'm not the one that defaulted to pointing at the guidelines when my views were challenged.

I pointed at the guidelines because you're blatantly and flagrantly violating them, and refusing to read them.

I also successfully defended my views using logic and reason. You resorted to redirection ("Lowering production costs and increasing sales volume are both achieved by producing lower quality merchandise" is irrelevant and betrays a total lack of understanding as to how capitalism works) and base emotional manipulation (such as "Are we now so desperate to defend capitalism that we're going to pretend shareholder value isn't the primary goal" and "accept the rather obvious critique of capitalism" and "ironically accurate" and "Have a nice day" as a way to terminate an argument in a belligerent manner).

Your attitude is utterly unsuitable for Hacker News. We do not want comments like this here, that intentionally lie and spread false information and dodge questions and emotionally manipulate.

If you refuse to read the guidelines, you should not post. Reddit is a better place for comments such as the ones you've been making.
Most commonly-used projects are watched by a bunch of people, or diffed on updates. These are not in-depth reviews, but should catch most of it. So yes, people are looking, and have been looking for a long time.

The reason Jia Tan could do their thing is because 1) the main meat was in a binary test file, 2) the code to use that seemed relatively harmless at a glance, and 3) people were encouraged to use the .tar.gz files instead of git clone. Also you need to actual get maintainer status, which is not as easy as it sounds.

I've been thinking of inserting a "// THIS LINE IS MALICIOUS, PLEASE REPORT IF YOU SEE IT" in some of my projects to see how long it would take. I bet it would be pretty fast either after commit or after tagging a release.
For anyone else searching for the episode: https://youtu.be/GJCF-Ufapu8?t=14843
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Yeah I think there are plausible arguments that affirmative action is not the right way to solve the problem. Mostly I’m trying to explain the dynamic that causes affirmative action to exist.
Father's gut microbiome may affect infant health
> bad guys getting two paychecks instead of one

1 to 2 paychecks = 100% increase.

> good guys getting one paycheck instead of zero

0 to 1 paycheck = infinity increase.

With a known baseline of "good paychecks", financial analytics can pursue identification of "bad paychecks".
Zuckerberg said the reason he bought so many GPUs was to build Reels to compete with TikTok. Is that the big claim you're asking about?

https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/mark-zuckerberg
But why is gold a better metric than anything else?

Like if there's a global war I bet people are going to want canned food much more than a gold chain. So should we use the price of chicken soup in 1944 vs 2023?

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But yeah I also agree with eru; being "close to yet another global war" is a way better place to be than "actually in a global war". Considering pretty much every century has them.
Why are there good odds that a smaller car is traveling faster? Pickup trucks and SUVs don’t noticeably lag behind traffic or travel slowly in my experience.

The scenario I was discussing is when there isn’t a bollard but some other barrier specifically designed to stop a vehicle.

A higher center of gravity and larger wheels will certainly help get over many obstacles that would otherwise stop a smart car.

If you had to bet which car was more likely to be deflected by a curb strike and which would not, I have a hard time believing you would put your money on a truck vs a small car.
When the value generation is so far removed from the individual, the system will get skewed towards private taking over something more globally beneficial (globally as in for the entire company).
To be clear, Bangladeshis (and I think most Muslims) don’t “hate” dogs. There are dogs—my dad had them in the village and we had one when I was young. It’s a hygiene taboo. They’re viewed as unclean. They live outside—you don’t snuggle them or put your face up to them. It’s similar to their view of using toilet paper instead of washing after going to the bathroom. Or how North Americans view the Latin American practice of disposing of toilet paper in the trash bin rather than flushing it.
I expected an image. After some clicking, I got https://github.com/HackModsOrg/m2sdr (look at the bottom)
No, it 'comes in the form of' a rubber hose...
In the US they're often used to divide entire lanes for a long distance.

https://shur-tite.com/WebData/images/ca74404b-a476-4826-8e47...

They're somewhere in between a line and a fixed bollard. They are more effective at encouraging drivers to voluntarily stay in their lane than a line is, but they still don't do anything to prevent vehicles from crossing in emergency situations, accidents, or people who don't care about the paint on their car. It would be cost prohibitive to replace this usage with retractable bollards because these often extend for long distances.
Not a critic to the article itself, in fact I know nothing about React and learned a lot from the it, but...do we REALLY need all of this to render web pages? Even if it is a web application and not just a page, doesn't this ecosystem seem too complicated for the problem it solves?
Applications for faculty positions typically comprise a CV, copies of 2-5 significant papers you’ve written, 3 letters of recommendation, a research statement, and a teaching statement. As I understand it, the DEI statement is supposed to go along with the last two.

Much of what is said about DEI statements can also be said about the teaching statement. At R1 universities like MIT, people are hired for tenure track positions based on their past (and future) research, and many teaching statements can be recitations of current hot topics (“flipped classrooms” “active learning” etc). But good ones (with evidence in letters of rec and CV) indicate that the candidate really has practiced what they propose to do in the future. To be clear, at MIT I’m sure a stellar teaching statement won’t get someone hired, but a patently false or over the top “I don’t care” one might give people pause.

As I understand, DEI statements are the same. If someone wrote “my philosophy is that we should perpetuate the structures of power and mediocrity created by focusing on wealthy pedigreed individuals rather than ability and potential found by looking in unusual places” that would raise eyebrows. Conversely, if they instead said “I TA’d for an international computational neuroscience summer school that gave opportunity to impoverished students from Africa and Asia”, people might think “That’s cool!”

But I think that most academics who are motivated by equity are not interesting in reading a ChatGPT DEI statement.

I do think that the conversation around this is really unfortunate. I find little philosophical difference between what people are looking for with DEI statements and what goes into college applications from HS students, but I hear fewer people advocating for getting rid of those essays.